Focuses on how practitioners can engage with continuing professional learning and development. This book is written to support and help busy social workers in front line practice, as well as those in leadership and management roles, to achieve the key aims of continuing professional development (CPD) in a post-qualifying social work context.

This book will provide students on youth and community work courses with a good understanding of the range of theories that should support their practice.

A guide to values and ethics for mental health students

This comprehensive textbook engages in the essential discussion of what professional leadership means in the context of contemporary social work and why this is considered to be important for the future of the profession.

This book provides a general introduction to working with risk in social care.

An essential and highly topical text for students undertaking policing related degrees and programmes with a terrorism element.

A complete guide to understanding and using counselling skills in social work.

A complete guide to safeguarding vulnerable adults.

Using case studies, activities and research summaries, this accessible guide to child and family social work will provide students with the knowledge and skills they need to practice with confidence.

Using case studies, reflective questions and checklists for practice, this hands-on guide will provide busy social workers with the knowledge and skills they need to effectively and confidently make a difference to the lives of children and young people.